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University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ contractors are planning to perform routine maintenance on the flood protection levee located on the CU-South property starting in middle to late March, with survey work possibly beginning this week.

President Barak Obama today lifted restrictions on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research, which many scientists believe could lead to new treatments for various diseases. Three University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ experts are available to talk about the biology of stem cell research and some of the implications of the executive order.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Conference on World Affairs Athenaeum will host a free, public film screening of the rock musical and cult hit "Hedwig and the Angry Inch" on Monday, March 16, at 7 p.m. in Muenzinger Auditorium. The event is co-sponsored by the International Film Series and includes an introduction and a question-and-answer session with the film's writer, director and star, John Cameron Mitchell.

Acclaimed film curators from both sides of the country will meet at the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ to help celebrate the Fifth Annual Stan Brakhage Symposium on March 14-15.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ's Center of the American West will host author Amy Irvine on March 11 as she reads from her new book "Trespass: Living at the Edge of the Promised Land." She also will be interviewed by Suzanne Jones, regional director for The Wilderness Society in Denver, and history Professor Patty Limerick, chair of the board of the Center of the American West.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ announced today a $500,000 grant from the Boettcher Foundation for the new Visual Arts Complex.

A University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ research team has identified a type of skeletal muscle stem cell that contributes to the repair of damaged muscles in mice, which could have important implications in the treatment of injured, diseased or aging muscle tissue in humans, including the ravages of muscular dystrophy.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students and members of the community are being sought for a series of free master classes and directors' labs taught by entertainment industry professionals from Disney Theatricals and Cirque du Soleil, a Tony Award-winning conductor and musical director, and a Tony Award-winning Broadway director.

Gases rising from deep within the Earth are fueling the world's highest-known microbial ecosystems, which have been detected near the rim of the 19,850-foot-high Socompa volcano in the Andes by a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ research team.

The latest addition to the University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ campus - a Visual Arts Complex located near the University Memorial Center - will reach a major milestone on March 5 with a topping-off ceremony celebrating the completion of the skeletal structure of the 170,000-square-foot, $63.5 million arts complex.